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demolition
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun demolition has 2 senses
- demolition(n = noun.event) destruction, wipeout - an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something; Array is a kind of conclusion, ending, finish
- demolition(n = noun.act) Array - the act of demolishing; Array is a kind of destruction, devastation
has particulars: annihilation, disintegration, eradication, obliteration, depredation, ravage, razing, wrecking, ruin, ruination, rack, wrack
Derived form verb demolish1
Derived forms verb demolish3, verb demolish1, verb demolish2
THESAURUS
demolition
answer, complete answer, confounding, confutation, contradiction, controversion, demolishment, denial, disassembly, discrediting, dismantlement, effective rejoinder, flattening, leveling, overthrow, overthrowal, razing, rebuttal, refutal, refutation, smashing, squelch, subversion, tearing down, undermining, unmaking, upset, upsetting, wreckage, wreckingROGET THESAURUS
demolition
Destruction
N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.
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